Summary

Zimbra Collaboration is an open, secure collaboration software suite for email, address book, calendar, file-sharing and tasks. According to its website, there are over 500 million people who are using Zimbra Collaboration and come from 135+ countries. Zimbra Collaboration is used by 500+ service providers, 1000+ government & financial institutions and 200k+ businesses. They include global brands such as NTT Communications, Comcast, Dell, Cadbury, Investec, Rackspace, Red Hat, VMware, H&R Block and Vodafone.

A CSRF vulnerability has been discovered in Zimbra Collaboration since 8.6.0. The vulnerability is caused due to less protection in the login progress. It allows remote attackers to launch CSRF attack against Zimbra Collaboration users.

Solutions

FortiGuard Labs released the following FortiGate IPS signature which covers this specific vulnerability:

References

Acknowledgement

This vulnerability was discovered by Zhouyuan Yang of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.

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